d there was no knowing
what possibilities lay before a strong, skilful warrior in those
days. So he fed the boy with meat, whenever it was obtainable. The
boy thrived, grew strong, big, and handsome as a young lama (_Maba
sandwicensis_) tree.

There was another pool with a small fall of the Waipio River very
near the house of Kalei, and the boy very often went into it while
his mother watched on the banks. Whenever he got into the water he
would take the form of a shark and would chase and eat the small fish
which abounded in the pool. As he grew old enough to understand,
his mother took especial pains to impress on him the necessity of
concealing his shark nature from other people.

This place was also another favorite bathing-place of the people, but
Nanaue, contrary to all the habits of a genuine Hawaiian, would never
go in bathing with the others, but always alone; and when his mother
was able, she used to go with him and sit on the banks, holding the
kapa scarf, which he always wore to hide the shark-mouth on his back.

When he became a man, his appetite for animal diet, indulged
in childhood, had grown so strong that a human being's ordinary
allowance would not suffice for him. The old grandfather had died in
the meantime, so that he was dependent on the food supplied by his
stepfather and uncles, and they had to expostulate with him on what
they called his shark-like voracity. This gave rise to the common
native nickname of a _manohae_ (ravenous shark) for a very gluttonous
man, especially in the matter of meat.

Nanaue used to spend a good deal of his time in the two pools,
the one inland and the other opening into the sea. The busy-bodies
(they had some in those days as well as now) were set to wondering
why he always kept a _kihei_, or mantle, on his shoulders; and for
such a handsomely shaped, athletic young man, it was indeed a matter
of wonder and speculation, considering the usual attire of the youth
of those days. He also kept aloof from all the games and pastimes
of the young people, for fear that the wind or some active movement
might displace the kapa mantle, and the shark-mouth be exposed to view.

About this time children and eventually grown-up people began to
disappear mysteriously.

Nanaue had one good quality that seemed to redeem his apparent
unsociability; he was almost always to be seen working in his
mother's taro or potato patch when not fishing or bathing. People
going to the sea be